Blithe Spirit (1945)
87 %
Reviews Counted: 15 Fresh: 13 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Synopsis: In David Lean's adaptation of Noel Coward's three-act farce, an English mystery novelist invites a medium over for dinner in the hopes of gathering enough material for his latest book, as well as exposing her as a charlatan. However, a series of incidents occur during the course of the... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Margaret Rutherford, Kay Hammond, Hugh Wakefield
Director: David Lean
Story: Ronald Neame
Composer: Richard Addinsell
Story: David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan
Story: Ronald Neame
Composer: Richard Addinsell
Story: David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan
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As the medium Madame Arcatti, Margareth Rutherford stole every scene in David Lean's screen adaptation of Nowel Coward's witty play.
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02/21/08
Inasmuch as this is largely a photographed copy of the stage play [by Noel Coward], the camerawork is outstandingly good and helps to put across the credibility of the ghost story more effectively than the flesh and blood performance does.
11/06/07
Top Critic
Nifty special effects for the time, and plenty of Coward's inimitable wit and repartee.
02/09/06
Worth it just for Margaret Rutherford as a sort of girls' school gamesmistres-style psychic!
02/23/03
The last word in witty repartee of the most civilized kind – the sort of thing Noel Coward was known for, and nobody did better.
02/02/03
Passably good, but it should have been better, what with Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, and Margaret Rutherford reading the Noel Coward lines.
01/01/00
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